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Advocacy Update: Trees, Sewage Backups, Oh My!

The last few months at Blue Water Baltimore have been packed with important advocacy efforts in Baltimore City. We asked you to take action in support of the city’s trees and to speak out against sewage backups — and you did big time!  We have some exciting progress to share on these two issues. These…

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Fighting for Clean Water With Baltimore City DPW

As our 10th birthday celebration continues, we’re shining a spotlight on one of our allies in the fight for clean water, the Waterway Pollution Investigation Team in the Baltimore City Department of Public Works.  This dedicated group of people receives your reports, follows up on them, and hunts down the source of the pollution in…

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Drinking water is a pollutant. Let’s treat it that way.

When people think about things that pollute Baltimore’s streams and rivers, chances are they think about sewage, trash, and legacy toxins. Drinking water? Not so much. It’s hard to think of drinking water as a pollutant. After all, it is clean water, right? It doesn’t have the pungent smell that sewage does. It’s not unsightly…